Radio telephone system control apparatus and method

In a method and apparatus for controlling a radio telephone system of the type wherein a connection between a wired telephone channel and a plurality of radio telephone sets (5, 5 min ) is controlled by a single master apparatus (4) connected to the wired telephoen channel, a paging through the wired telephone channel is detected, a paging signal is sent to the radio telephone sets (5, 5 min ) from the master apparatus (4) when the paging is detected and a paging response signal is sent to the master apparatus (4) from the radio telephone set (5, 5 min ) in response to the paging signal Further a channel designating signal is sent to the radio telephone set (5, 5 min ) in accordance with the paging response signal. a radio channel of the master apparatus (4) is switched to a radio channel corresponding to the channel designating signal, the radio channel of the radio telephone set is switched to a radio channel corresponding to the channel designating signal, and a speech channel is established between a radio channel set responding to the paging signal and the wired telephone channel.